Installer is piping curl into shell
I thought we were past this as a society 😔
this post was submitted on 10 Jul 2024
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ooh, available for “x86_65” on Alpine
(and they’ve fixed that now)
Have you really not heard of it? It is a new architecture that is a bit better than x64_64.
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x86_64++
Plus ultra!
I mean its already in the nix repos as well as homebrew which means its essentially taken care of
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A curl piped into a shell or some unofficial packages from various distros.
At this point I don't get why these projects are not Flatpak-first.
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https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/7054#issuecomment-1916315391
They auto download binaries, even proprietary ones, unsigned and without user interaction.
YEAH security!
So they're doing the equivalent of VSCode(ium)'s extensions, but installing them automatically and not giving you the option to use alternatives?
Blegh.
tl;dr: General purpose extensions are not even implemented yet
zed is very much an early stages editor; it'll look very different a year from now
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There ought to be a rule that posts about software releases have to say what it is.
Zed (a high-performance code editor announced in 2022), not to be confused with Xed (a small and lightweight text editor released in 2016)
EDIT: or Yed (a small and simple terminal editor core)
My bad, it's up now
also seems to have some security issues …
They are addressing this here: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/14034
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I am BEGGING for any editor other than VSCode to have decent remote development. I want to go open source but everything I've tried (remote-nvim, distant, tramp, vscodium, etc.) just doesn't cut it.
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I still don't understand why I should need GPU acceleration for my fucking TEXT EDITOR
Same reason you need it for your terminal (see kitty terminal). It's surprisingly slow to cpu render text, gpu rendering is more power efficient and far more responsive
It was surprising how gpu accelerated rendering helped read logs better. Niche case, but better was better.
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I mean, it should be clear. Smooth and fast and snappy. If you don't want that, use neovim like me :)
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What's that?
Integrated Development Environment (IDE) from the makers of Atom. It is written in rust.
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I can see the beginning of something truly great in this editor. It's going to become better than VS code in a year.
It's already great for some languages like Go and Rust.
VScode is proprietary and slow. If you are using something like that you should use VScodium
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Interesting project, how ever it will be hard to compete with existing editors and its plugin eco-systems.
It supports LSPs, and has treesitter syntax highlighting and git integration which honestly makes it 90% of the way there already
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I still do not understand why Zed makes such a big deal about being GPU accelerated when you'll be hard pressed to find a single text editor nowadays that isn't.
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Anyone care to compare this with Helix?
Very first impressions since I literally just downloaded before writing this, and haven't read the manual, I may change my mind with more experience.
- It's incredibly snappy, to my eyes as fast as Helix.
- A lot of stuff that took me a while to figure out in VS Code was immediately obvious. How to toggle inlay hints for Rust? Parameter Icon > Inlay Hints (with the keyboard shortcut there for easy toggling).
- Interactive is generally intuitive because it seems pretty permissive. Tab vs Enter to autocomplete? Either! ctrl-shift-Z vs ctrl-Y to redo? Same thing!
- After being so used to Helix I often reach for keybinds that don't exist. I might have to learn Vim keybinds because I'm definitely going to keep trying Zed.
- Not sure how I feel about what seems to be an inline discord-like chat/voice-call feature.
Going to check out if there's git integration, because I couldn't easily find it.
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Zed has a lot more features and is GUI-based. Helix is more focused and is CLI-based. I think a more direct comparison would be with VSCode(ium).
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